Difference between revisions of "C19 Bookbinding Session"
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| + | *Paste paper with leather spine (1787) | ||
| + | **handle lettering: one off usually (vs. edition) | ||
Revision as of 15:36, 26 April 2017
From the UW binding collection
- c18 paper wrappers - 1734 French Recuil de Pouesies Prouvencalos (Berte, 1734)
- glued to spine
- cover is short - too small for text block
- quires sown so as to be easily removed - utilitarian
- these especially common in France
- Appel au Tribunal de l'Opinion Publique, Mounier (1790, Geneva)
- trimmed deckle edges: decided to be "final" binding
- des bib useful for understanding how it came off the press
- color of paper from rag content - not dyed (bluish grey, lighter grey)
- Marbling
- marbling tray
- allum makes color stick
- version of watercolor, which is floated on size: you have 2-3 min to be able to manipulate color
- size: caraginan moss infused water - sticky
- lay paper on size without air bubbles
- wash off: allum makes color stick
- editions difficult
- Richard Wolf - marbling
- Paste paper: Herodian, Herodians lebens-leshchreibung de romischen kaiser (1784)
- waste paper pressed and dried
- colored with whatever you have around
- decorative paper any bookbinder could do
- Mostly German
- Transitions: spine labeling
- Blank -> handwritten (all unique) -> printed: a way to date binding
- Paste paper with leather spine (1787)
- handle lettering: one off usually (vs. edition)
